Keith City complained about being “lonely and depressing” whereas on tour earlier than he and Nicole Kidman referred to as it quits on their 19-year marriage.
The nation music star mirrored on the hardships of touring in an upcoming episode of his competitors collection, “The Highway,” in keeping with the Each day Mail.
“The place can we begin?” City, 57, asks within the episode, which premieres on Oct. 19. “It’s a calling, and also you’re going to do it otherwise you’re not going to make it.”
The “You’ll Consider Me” singer explains that the present should at all times go on — no matter how he’s feeling.
He displays, “While you get up on a tour bus at 3:30 within the morning and also you’re sick as a canine, you’re in the course of nowhere and also you’ve bought to play your fifth present later that evening, and also you haven’t slept, and also you miss your folks, and also you’re lacking your loved ones, and also you’re utterly lonely and depressing and sick — and also you say to your self, ‘Why am I doing this?’”
“The one reply may be: As a result of that is what I’m born to do,” he continues.
The CBS and Paramount+ collection follows 12 artists competing as opening acts for City at music venues throughout the nation.
City’s candid feedback about his struggles on tour surfaced simply weeks after Web page Six confirmed that he and Kidman had separated.
“Generally relationships simply run their course,” a supply advised us in September, including that Kidman, 58, “didn’t need the separation and was making an attempt to avoid wasting issues.”
TMZ reported on the time that City had moved out of their household dwelling and that Kidman was caring for their daughters: Sunday Rose, 17, and Religion Margaret, 14. (Kidman additionally shares two grownup kids together with her first husband, Tom Cruise.)
“[Kidman is] holding the household collectively via this troublesome time since Keith has been gone,” a supply advised the outlet, referring to his present tour.
Days later, rumors swirled that City and his guitarist, Maggie Baugh, had been romantically concerned after clips of the 2 musicians trying flirty onstage surfaced on-line.
Maggie’s father, Chuck Baugh, denied the hypothesis, telling the Each day Mail, “I don’t know something about it, aside from she’s a guitar participant for him.”
“It’s extra of a musician factor than a relationship factor,” he added.
In the meantime, a clip resurfaced of Maggie saying she was in opposition to band romances.
Whereas Kidman has circuitously addressed their cut up, she did share a message about her resilience in an interview with Harper’s Bazaar revealed final week.
“There’s one thing to figuring out that regardless of how painful, or how troublesome, or how devastating one thing is, there’s a approach via,” she mentioned.
Cracks between Kidman and City began to point out in June when City abruptly ended a Zoom interview after he was requested about Kidman’s steamy love scenes with Zac Efron within the 2024 Netflix film, “A Household Affair.”
The “Large Little Lies” actress and City met on the G’Day USA gala in January 2005 and tied the knot a yr later.
